Episode 030: George Adams
Episode 30 of The Blank Canvas Podcast with George Adams.
George grew up in a small village in Scotland. He spent the first five years of his working life at an explosives factory, before deciding there must be more to life and self-funding himself through a degree in commerce and marketing, with the dream of writing and making TV drama at the BBC.
Upon graduation, with limited job opportunities in Scotland, George headed to London to try his luck. He landed a job at the BBC through sheer luck and of course, the chutzpah to have a crack.
George quickly worked his way up the ranks, and before long was network executive on dozens major telemovies, A Foreign Field starring Alec Guinness, Jean Moreau and Lauren Bacall, and others starring the likes of Hugh Grant, Alan Rickman, Albert Finney, Richard Harris and Gabriel Byrne.
On leaving the BBC George joined Carlton TV as the Executive in Charge of Drama Production. Then several stints withe biggest players in the biz - VP & Head of Business Affairs & Production for the Columbia TriStar/Sony joint venture, Golden Square Pictures, next up Head of Drama Production at Granada UK (now ITVG)
Whilst at ITV George guided TV shows including: Class Act starring Joanna Lumley, Sharpe starring Sean Bean, Rebecca starring Charles Dance, Diana Rigg and Faye Dunaway, Tough Love with Ray Winstone.
Now married to an Aussie lass, George relocates to Australia to raise their kids.
George’s credits down under include creating the award winning drama, Bed of Roses, which ran on the ABC for three seasons. EP of the movie Wolf Creek, which went on to be one of the most successful R rated Australian movies of all time.
George then created and acted as both producer and show runner on Five series of Australia’s highest rating returning drama series year on year with The Doctor Blake Mysteries. A global hit, running in more than 130 territories including BBC1, Netflix USA.
Other major credits included EP on BAFTA award winning UK drama Mrs Biggs and the 3D IMAX movie Hidden Universe.
George has developed, produced, managed and controlled well in excess of $850M of TV drama production in the UK, Europe and Australia.
Working in the screen industry is not for the faint of heart but George has managed to navigate a path with more ups than downs and keep his sense if humour intact.
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